It most likely won't be like that (except if she's had this side to her all along and decides to go all the way while she's at it), but JAV almost always includes BDSM elements. At least some kinds of restraints are sure to feauture along the way.

I disagree. Have you ever seen Morning Musume pre-2002? I chose that era because that's when they were the most popular and that's when Goto Maki was the face of MM. Let me tell you, they weren't pretty at all, even for that time period. What made them popular was their charisma on tv.

As far as I'm concerned, it should be considered natural for former "talents" and "idols" to want to go into gravure. It's a solid career choice for them, if they're pretty enough. No shame in having people take sexy, beautiful photos of you.

That is, things can improve a lot, but people will always react in some way or form. We might pass legislation to protect sex workers, but protecting their social reputation will necessitate essentilly making people not care about sex as anything more than physicality, and not caring much at that level either.

Where there are good emotions there will always be the potential for bad emotions, where there is love and infatuation there will be hate and jealousy.

Yeah, good luck with that, maybe when sex is no longer an integral part of social bonds and structures and is PURELY recreational (animals are more recreational about it, but social bonds and structures are always parts of it).

Sex is an interpersonal commodity in high demand, it's not ever going to be something people don't pop their eyes at and/or make judgements about.

I don't think AV should be considered a natural choice, even if the money's right. But I agree that there's way too much stigma attached. It's not always like that though, Natsume Nana's regular career got boosted even further by her 4 years of AV...

You're right that it shouldn't be natural, but stupid me lost the ability to edit my comment just a minute after I posted, so I couldn't clarify.

I just don't think it should be considered especially shameful considering the visual nature of the talent/idol/gravure/av industry. It would be better for everyone if more beautiful women could take part in AV without all the stigma attached. It's not a particularly dangerous line of work if you're working with high-budget stuff, but unfortunately that stuff is rare due to the way the market is now.

I hear a few porn stars regret making the switch to that type of industry just for a quick buck. Watching beautiful women degrade themselves for money is not something I know most intelligent people enjoy watching. Between the STDs and the few who maintain somewhat arrogant attitude. It just doesn't seem good for anybody. Some do it for the money and others just enjoy it, but they are all treat by most people the same...whores.

STD checks are weekly and sometimes semi-weekly for porn stars unless you're doing amateur videos with strangers. Any studio would be highly regulated on STDs since porn star STD can affect a lot of people pretty quickly.. Don't know how it is over there.

That's the thing... all women are whores. Its in their dna. Even primitive cousin like chimpanzee has been scene trading sex for bananas. Whore genes go way back down the line to before the human / chimp lineage split. It's part of the X chromosome, that explains the existence of some new halfs and man whores. So XX = guaranteed whore. It's already decided in the womb.